Two forts - One scrim (Clan match idea)

[Marmalade]

With the full release knocking around, it's nigh-inevitable that new maps will be made by the community at some point.

This gave me a vague idea last night for a type of clan match, the details aren't complete but here goes:

Two forts - One scrim

The match will take place as a best-of-three contest, with mutually agreed score limits.

The final, deciding match would be a Battle on mutually agreed terrain, but the previous two would be Seiges.

Here's where it gets fun:

The Seiges would be on "home terrain", that is on a castle map designed and shared by the clan themselves, and that clan would be defending their own castle. This obviously would give them a home advantage.

The castles would have to be designed with certain minimum specifications in mind - perhaps at least one ladder per compass direction, a gate house and at least one sally port.

Something about each clan having it's own private dominion tickles me pleasantly, as well as designing castles with your own choke points and heraldry.

 

[Orion]

While that could be awesome, in order to play on the server you'd need the map installed. For this, you'd need to download it. Well, if you download a map you can play it any time, so say nK challenges the Hoboknights. nK, being the competitive bastards we are, will be playing the Hoboknight castle map constantly up to the time of the scrim. We'd get to know the ins and outs and develop our strategies well beforehand.

You see my point? Every time someone challenged someone else, they'd just grind away at each others castles on their own servers until they knew them like the backs of their hands.

Though I do agree it would be awesome seeing how each clan chooses to represent themselves via their castle. Hey, who knows? Maybe we could start up a contest with TaleWorlds to see which clan can create the best castle, and the best one (or two, three, w/e) get selected and implemented into a patch.

 

[SCGavin]

While that could be awesome, in order to play on the server you'd need the map installed. For this, you'd need to download it. Well, if you download a map you can play it any time, so say nK challenges the Hoboknights. nK, being the competitive bastards we are, will be playing the Hoboknight castle map constantly up to the time of the scrim. We'd get to know the ins and outs and develop our strategies well beforehand.

You see my point? Every time someone challenged someone else, they'd just grind away at each others castles on their own servers until they knew them like the backs of their hands.

Well, you could just wait with officially releasing the map until just before the match. But I think this will be implemented in the Battle for Calradia. As far as I know, clans make their own maps to fight on in their own territories.